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Re: Netatalk inconsistencies wired vs. wireless.



On Jun 9, 6:00 pm, DaveSchmenk <dschm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This may a dumb question, but is any part of the AppleTalk stack
> trying to communicate over IPV4?  From the looks of your IFCONFIG, the
> wired adapter only has an IPV6 address.  Could you assign it an IPV4
> address and see if it gets any farther along?  If your wireless
> adapter (the external one) was smart enough  to convert IPV4 to IPV6
> it could explain why you could then communicate using that interface
> on the server.  Just a thought,
>
> Dave...

Interesting catch, although I was under the impression that EtherTalk
didn't use TCP/IP at all.

That said, if the wired ethernet card isn't getting an IPv4 address,
it may affect how the router routes things? Not sure.